nVidia announce the Titan X at GDC 2015

Tonester0011 · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:24

If it's like original Titan you're looking at a month wait for blocks. I think worst case you'd be looking at £1100 for the TX. I spend my overtime on my computer, and if this month is as good as last month i might be tempted.

ALXAndy · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:24

Gregster said:
You know I will go water...Trying to talk myself out of it but then again, I don't inted to touch the system for quite some time, so I might be able to muster up the effort of popping them on a nice EK block and back plate.

No no dude go water. Trust me, you've obviously forgotten what a blower fan sounds like at full pelt. It's really annoying and I can't wait to off mine.

Gregster · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:27

Tonester0011 said:
If it's like original Titan you're looking at a month wait for blocks. I think worst case you'd be looking at £1100 for the TX. I spend my overtime on my computer, and if this month is as good as last month i might be tempted.

Same for me with the OT. I managed to do a bit over the last couple of months and put the cash aside for a rainy day. I bet it is raining when I order the TXs as well.

As for water cooled, time will tell and I probs will

pmc25 · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:38

Dunno what happened to the last thread, but to reiterate what I said previously, 12GB is absolutely laughable unless you're doing very specific GPGPU tasks or rendering very large scenes. Completely useless for gaming.

Also horrible from a gaming perspective because a huge portion of the card's TDP will be from the memory alone, meaning the GPU must be comparatively weaker in order to fit into a reasonable power envelope.

ALXAndy · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:40

pmc25 said:
Dunno what happened to the last thread, but to reiterate what I said previously, 12GB is absolutely laughable unless you're doing very specific GPGPU tasks or rendering very large scenes. Completely useless for gaming.

Also horrible from a gaming perspective because a huge portion of the card's TDP will be from the memory alone, meaning the GPU must be comparatively weaker in order to fit into a reasonable power envelope.

It's a bit daft but I wouldn't say it's laughable. I mean one day.... lol.

It's a rebranded server part like the 5960x. They don't usually make much sense

Kaapstad · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:44

pmc25 said:
Dunno what happened to the last thread, but to reiterate what I said previously, 12GB is absolutely laughable unless you're doing very specific GPGPU tasks or rendering very large scenes. Completely useless for gaming.

Also horrible from a gaming perspective because a huge portion of the card's TDP will be from the memory alone, meaning the GPU must be comparatively weaker in order to fit into a reasonable power envelope.

I think I will find ways to use most of the memory.

I think you will find the extra vram will make very little difference to the TDP. If you check out the 4gb and 8gb 290Xs there is not a big difference in power usage between them.

blasterbolt · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:45

Just wondering what people reckon.Will the Titan x be able to power bf4 full ultra settings 120 fps+. Atm my 2 980s can get between 65-100 fps but they hit 80+ degrees and the system fans make a racket so I would be happy to switch if it's quieter :cool:

Telecaster · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:47

blasterbolt said:
Just wondering what people reckon.Will the Titan x be able to power bf4 full ultra settings 120 fps+. Atm my 2 980s can get between 65-100 fps but they hit 80+ degrees and the system fans make a racket so I would be happy to switch if it's quieter

Doubt it, estimated speed increase over a 980 is about 40-45%, so two 980s should monster a single TX.

ALXAndy · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:47

blasterbolt said:
Just wondering what people reckon.Will the Titan x be able to power bf4 full ultra settings 120 fps+. Atm my 2 980s can get between 65-100 fps but they hit 80+ degrees and the system fans make a racket so I would be happy to switch if it's quieter

The only way to truly make a GPU quiet is to shove it under water. TBH? I remember the reviews of the Titan and 770 and so on all saying they were quiet. Balls. Once they start getting toward 80c the only way to keep them from getting stupid hot is to stress the fans and then they're anything but quiet.

I guess people have different definitions of quiet but I decided to AIO my Titans just to shut them up. They were bad enough before but at 4k they seem to be stressing hard and make loads of noise.

Obviously there are headphones but I've had several bacterial infections in my ears now from over use of headphones so I'm trying to make my rig ambient noise so I can play on my speakers at reasonable volumes without driving my wife crazy.

TheRealDeal · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:48

blasterbolt said:
Just wondering what people reckon.Will the Titan x be able to power bf4 full ultra settings 120 fps+. Atm my 2 980s can get between 65-100 fps but they hit 80+ degrees and the system fans make a racket so I would be happy to switch if it's quieter

No it will not be able to push higher frames than what you already have. I don't think anybody is expecting Titan X to even match gtx980 sli.

fantasticCG · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:49

blasterbolt said:
Just wondering what people reckon.Will the Titan x be able to power bf4 full ultra settings 120 fps+. Atm my 2 980s can get between 65-100 fps but they hit 80+ degrees and the system fans make a racket so I would be happy to switch if it's quieter

I reckon it will @ 144hz

RanxZy · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:50

pmc25 said:
Dunno what happened to the last thread, but to reiterate what I said previously, 12GB is absolutely laughable unless you're doing very specific GPGPU tasks or rendering very large scenes. Completely useless for gaming.

Also horrible from a gaming perspective because a huge portion of the card's TDP will be from the memory alone, meaning the GPU must be comparatively weaker in order to fit into a reasonable power envelope.

At least the huge frame buffer will allow it to last ages unlike many NVIDIA cards that are really fast but purposely given short Vram so you feel the upgrade itch sooner (780 Ti, 980 etc)

They would still charge the 1000USD+ price whether it was 6GB or 9GB or 12 and I know people would rather the highest for the money. Oh yeah even if it had a higher tdp because of the extra vram it'll still be less than the 390X

Kaapstad · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:51

TheRealDeal said:
No it will not be able to push higher frames than what you already have. I don't think anybody is expecting Titan X to even match gtx980 sli.

I think it will start getting close to 980 SLI @2160p but at lower resolutions no.

pmc25 · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:53

RanxZy said:
At least the huge frame buffer will allow it to last ages unlike many NVIDIA cards that are really fast but purposely given short Vram so you feel the upgrade itch sooner (780 Ti, 980 etc)

They would still charge the 1000USD+ price whether it was 6GB or 9GB or 12 and I know people would rather the highest for the money. Oh yeah even if it had a higher tdp because of the extra vram it'll still be less than the 390X

But it's going to be more bandwidth constrained than possibly any card ever ...

TheRealDeal · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:54

Kaapstad said:
I think it will start getting close to 980 SLI @2160p but at lower resolutions no.

Yea it could get closer at 4k as the higher spec of Titan starts to show. It has a lot to live up to tbh as only one Titan card has really been good and that's the original. I think we forget there has been Titan Black and Titan z which were pretty much flops in my eyes.

Mei · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:55

im just wondering to the people that are thinking of buying these, how much faster or not faster than a 980 does it need to be for you to reconsider?

if its only 20% faster than a 980 would you still buy? 30%?
the 980 overclocks good so i guess AFTER overclock

Kaapstad · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:56

TheRealDeal said:
Yea it could get closer at 4k as the higher spec of Titan starts to show.

The 256bit bus of the 980 can really throttle it @2160p

ALXAndy · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:59

Mei said:
im just wondering to the people that are thinking of buying these, how much faster or not faster than a 980 does it need to be for you to reconsider?

if its only 20% faster than a 980 would you still buy? 30%?
the 980 overclocks good so i guess AFTER overclock

I think most are expecting 40% like we got with the Titan over the 680.

Though the 980 may be a bit good and it could be lower. Whatever does come true there's no doubt it'll be faster than the original Titan by a fair chunk.

Mei · 7 Mar 2015 at 21:05

ALXAndy said:
I think most are expecting 40% like we got with the Titan over the 680.

Though the 980 may be a bit good and it could be lower. Whatever does come true there's no doubt it'll be faster than the original Titan by a fair chunk.

40% after overclock i can see some gamers buying 1 too yeh
basically bcos there's nothing else to buy

my guess is it wont be that high unless going ultra 4k tho!? then you need a few of them and thats serious shopping money

RanxZy · 7 Mar 2015 at 21:07

Kaapstad said:
I think it will start getting close to 980 SLI @2160p but at lower resolutions no.

I suggested it could possibly get close to 780 SLI with a decent oc but ALXAndy completely blew that out of the water saying it's impossible in the scrapped thread so good luck with that